Changing Your Address, Name, SSN or Date of Birth

How to Change Your Address

Changing addresses at the Office of the Registrar will not include other offices, such as the library, Housing, Payroll, and Wardenburg Health Center. These offices have separate address systems and changes must be made there as well.

Addresses can be changed in the following ways:

• Online: At CUConnect (Foreign addresses cannot be updated via the web.)
  
  
  • Addresses updated on the web are updated on the student record immediately (real time).
    
    
• By E-mail: All addresses (including foreign addresses) can be changed by sending an e-mail from your official CU e-mail address to address@colorado.edu.
  
  
  • Please include:
    • The last four digits of your Student ID #.
    • Your old address that you want changed.
    • Your new address and phone number.
      
      
• Walk in to the Office: Fill out a change-of-address form at the Office of the Registrar in Regent 105 (please bring your picture ID with you).

Privacy: Students that do not want their address to be part of Directory Information, may request Limited Privacy. The application for Limited Privacy is on the student portal - CUConnect. Look for "Registrar Forms" in the "Academics & Research" section.

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Address Requirements and Usage:

The following addresses on your student record must be kept current:

• Billing address - Discontinued as of summer 2008
  
  
  • Students will receive an e-bill notification to their Colorado.edu address when a bill is available on CUConnect.
    
    
  • If you have any questions concerning CU Bill&Pay please see the Bursar’s website at http://www.colorado.edu/bursar
    
    
• Mailing address & Local Phone Number - Your address during the fall and spring semesters and throughout the summer months if you’re enrolled in summer classes. Please include your phone number where faculty and/or administrators can reach you. This could include a cell phone and/or a land line number. –
  
  
  • Used For: Information mailed to the mailing address includes: registration information for future semesters, refund checks, and financial aid information.
    
    
  • Used During: This address is used from late August through mid-May (and throughout the summer if you’re enrolled in summer classes). Your permanent address is used during the winter semester break.
    
    
  • Emergencies: It is extremely important that the university have a local mailing address and phone number on file so that you may be contacted in case of an emergency.
    
    
• Permanent address - Your “home-base” address – This can be your parents’ address, a Boulder address, or the address of someone who knows how to reach you.
  
  
  • Used For: Mailings during the summer months and during the winter semester break.
    
    
  • Summer Students Exception : If you’re enrolled in summer classes, your mailing address is used during the summer months.
    
    
  • Graduation: After graduation Diploma’s are mailed to the Permanent Address on file in addition to the $200 Enrollment Deposit if it is refunded.
    
    
• Students Mother, Father, Stepmother, Stepfather and Guardian’s address’ and phone number - The address and phone number of your mother, father, stepmother, stepfather and/or guardian. Whatever is applicable.
  
  
  • Because of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, parents (mothers and fathers) no longer have an inherent right to information from the student’s educational records. Thus, unless the student approves it, or it is listed as a FERPA exception, no information is sent to the student’s biological parents from the student’s educational record.
    
    
  • THIS INFORMATION IS PRIMARILY FOR EMERGENCY CONTACT

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Address Rules for International Students

• Mailing Address - Local home/residence address. International students cannot use a PO Box address for the mailing address, but instead must use their actual physical residence.* This must be the same address that appears on your SEVIS record.
  
  
• Permanent Address - This can be any address you like.
  
  
• SEVIS Address (J) - This is your foreign address.*
  
  *This is in accordance with rules set up by the Department of Homeland Security.

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Name / DOB / SSN Changes

To change a name on record, to correct a date of birth or to fix a Social Security Number, students must submit documentation (i.e. marriage license, court order, valid state drivers license, Social Security Card, passport) to the Academic Records Department in the Office of the Registrar, Regent Hall, Room 105.

To make a requests for corrections:

Download Change of Name / DOB / SSN Form

• FAX
  
  Fax the form along with documentation to:
  
  (303) 735-3705
  
  Please be sure the documentation is light enough to be legible once FAX'd.
  
  
• MAIL
  
  Mail the form along with documentation to:
  
  Academic Records
  20 UCB
  Boulder, CO 80309-0020
  
  
• IN PERSON
  
  Bring the form along with documentation to:
  
  Office of the Registrar
  Regent 105
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  Office Hours
  Fall & Spring: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  Summer: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

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